My take on what was really going on ***SPOLIERS***
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MidnightThud — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 01:24 PM)
I think she cried when reading the book because she recognised the daughter was going through the same mental and emotional strain she did which is why we see her get drunk and dress up like the daughter/herself as a young teen and the attempted seduction of the Aboriginal boy was part of the role play.
Most of us know women like this. part loving the attention from men but also loathing it and the lack of real, lasting and honest intimacy they receive.
I just think the molestations theories are stretching. -
!!!deleted!!! (58906484) — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 04:35 PM)
If you had drunk sex with a minor it would still be a problem. Being drunk is not an excuse. You drive drunk and kill somebody there are still laws and victims. She gets drunk and get to have sex with a retard? She is sexually frustrated and can rape her hubby? She can make strong aggressive passes at the cop in charge of investigating your child disappearance. Why are all the scenes there? Are they just random fillers or are they clues about her character?
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WolfgangHorizon — 10 years ago(August 07, 2015 03:55 PM)
Bravo! I had to sign in just to say 'Yes!" Yours is by far the best explanation, and the most logical. Excellent interpretation! There was always something so strange about the mother's behaviour, but I just didn't want to admit that perhaps she was the molesterbut as the show went on it seemed the father was by far the more normal of the two, and it couldn't just be chalked up to her grieving for her childrens' disappearance.
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trisul — 10 years ago(August 18, 2015 01:54 PM)
Thanks for the long explanation, but I think you are completely wrong.
Even more thanks for the link to the interview with the director, as that was really conclusive for me. It is also really big of you to provide "evidence" that does not support your point of view. I like that, it shows you would like to understand, a researcher at heart.
The director mentions how some people react to stress and uncertainty in a sexual way or workaholic ways and she wanted to depict this. So the sexuality of the wife was something else altogether, response to stress.
I think it much more likely that the father touched her in the dark, and that this was the one moment he would like to take back. The wife also mentions that the sex between them disappeared on the day Lily went naked and that the husband was upset by this. In short, he sees his beautiful daughter naked, gets hung up on her, starts touching her in the dark and loses sexual interest in his wife. Remember the first scene were he is uncomfortable about his daughter being scantily dressed and all that violence regarding his daughter. -
jasminka26 — 9 years ago(April 13, 2016 10:58 PM)
At the end of the movie the father said he decided NOT to go after her (he said her, not them) to punish her. He said he decided not to go after her to punish her. He didn't say I wanted to go after her to punish her. That was the strangest part of the movie.